Do you meme on lutzberg with it?
not TOO much because he's actually a very nice guy
u/The_Cactopus What's the least favorite part of your job? Like the mundane part of it and/or the most taxing part
My favorite thing is working on behind-the-scenes projects that take a long time to make and potentially have a big impact (like L10 aka The League 10 Year Anniversary). Those are typically big team projects, so the downside of that is potentially months of meetings, planning, bureaucratic navigation of org structures, etc. So the most meaningful and satisfying work I've ever gotten to do has also been the most painful.
200+ years of experience: how valuable is it?
not valuable enough to ever stop getting memed on lul
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this message was threatening even without the questionable spelling of "mail"
The whole idea behind this thread is that there are way more types of jobs in the games industry than you might've realized, and so if you're interested in one day working at Riot or at a place like Riot, feel free to ask the folks listed above about their experiences! Tagging the person you'd like to hear from will help them find your question.
Did you delete the post and post ot again or was it a reddit bug?
yeah, im just dumb
UPDATE 4:40PM PST: The AMA has "officially" ended, although a few of us may choose to stick around answering questions! This has been incredibly fun, and all of us enjoyed responding so much. I did a manual count and counted over 350 responses from the AMA participants. Thanks so much for coming with so many great questions!
Riot has 2,500+ employees and contract workers with really cool and valuable jobs: copyright lawyers, space planners, security experts... Most never get to interact with players. We wanna change that. So today's AMA features a number of people who don't normally get to talk to players. Some of these folks are full-time Rioters, and some of them are contract workers. All of them work at Riot Games and are crucial to helping bring you the game(s) you love.
The AMA will be split into two sessions, with the first group joining us from 10:30am–12:30pm PT, and the second group answering questions from 2:30pm–4:30pm PT!
Group 1 (Active 10:30am to 12:30pm PT):
Read moreu/the_cactopus this one right there my dude
TARGET ACQUIRED
/u/the_cactopus how did you infiltrate the balance team to have them make garen jungle a thing.
i don't know but i'm going to give mark yetter a hug when i see him next
i'm so happy
embrace the uwu, you don't stand a chance against it
think of this this way, you have a fancy new best of flair coming to replace the uwu one
Please don’t hurt me, lazyeye. I need someone to take away the uwus
Or imma have to hide from the shame on twitter, an objectively garbage platform
Hello Cactopus, a lot to unpack here.
A: uwu
B: That sounds dope! Its always cool to hear about the things I don't really know about. Plus, this subreddit is full of people with wide reaching interests, so I feel like hearing from (what sounds like) a diverse group could connect with quite a few people.
C: owo
D: what in your mind is the wildest riot job we haven't heard of?
E: UwU
F: Cactopus AMA when
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A: eat shit
B: Cool gonna take a couple weeks to sort the details and then do it!!
C: eat shit
D: Hmmm I have some in mind but maybe I should save it?
E: NO
F: nah y’all get enough of me already
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I'm really, sincerely grateful to y'all for the award. However, I feel that awards like this are biased toward Rioters like me, because communications is my whole job. Meanwhile, there are so many unrecognized Rioters who add huge amounts of value for players—many of whom just don't feel like they have a reason to talk online to players, even though they do a ton to help Riot and League of Legends succeed.
So I have an idea: What if Riot hosts a Reddit AMA featuring "The Rioters You've Never Heard Of." People like Riot's on-campus coffee baristas, copyright lawyers, and digital security experts? We've got some people with really wild jobs. It's not just designers, artists, marketing people, and programmers out here.
Would people be interested in something like that?
Read moreHuge congrats to u/captainflowers22, and well-deserved. He's repeatedly shown that he knows how to win the respect of the community. And he's damn good at his day job too!
"uwu of the decade"
cahootie pls
Ty Mr. Cactopus
ty mr. computo2000
But what did the third beam mean, Mr Quacktopuss?
WHAT DID IT MEAN
just a sort of weird tingly teaser that something unexpected might be coming
at one point we were planning on having the chrissy/elevator/music video scene conclude with a much more clearcut reappearance of the giant white beam, but instead we went with a more subtle fade to white because we didn't want to spoil the fact that we were about to reveal something big
Blizzard suffered a lot of backlash (unjustly imo) to their announcement of Diablo: Immortal, a mobile game
idk it sounds just for devs being tone deaf to get burned for it.
my bias as a guy who works on games is that sometimes i think gamers are a bit too harsh on devs
but uh i understand that others here would maybe not agree with that perspective LOL
caused some to interpret our subversiveness as us taking a shot at Blizzard, which wasn't our intention
how on earth did you not see this coming?
The other way to read it is that we were poking light fun at all the people who got mad about a mobile game being announced. "Aha! We got you. We KNEW you had phones."
My personal perspective is that the phones meme was a wolf in a room. The room was called "mobile game development." We had seen the wolf bite some of our friends. So we tried to use the power of memes to defang the wolf. I think we weren't 100% successful on this one, although people did get a kick out of that line.
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